| Requirements-Based Testing including Cause-Effect Graphing When everyone is eager to deploy your company’s latest software, you’re under pressure to test quickly, effectively and accurately. If you’re tired of slow processes and fear inaccurate results, you can discover how effective testing with a heavy emphasis on Requirements-Based Testing (RBT) can help deliver overall project productivity and product quality. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.istqbcourses.ca Web Seminar | |
| On the Redistribution of Testing – Part I Recently, there has been a spate of predictions of doom and gloom in our business. Conference talks have had titles such as ‘Test is Dead’ and ‘Death to the Testing Phase’. ‘Testing has contributed little to quality improvement in the last ten years’, and even being a tester is a ‘bad thing’ – are all keynote themes that circulated at conferences, blogs and YouTube in late 2011 [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com Article | |
| Using Generate from Usage for TDD with Visual Studio Use Test-Driven Development, generate from usage and a free Visual Studio add-in to let you spend more time doing what programmers want to do: writing code that works. [Click to read more] Source: http://visualstudiomagazine.com Article | |
| Growing hairy software, guided by tests Software grows organically. One line at a time, one change at a time. These changes soon add up. In an ideal world, they add up to a coherent architecture with an intention revealing design. But sometimes software just grows hairy – full of little details that obscure the underlying logic. What makes software hairy and how can we stop it? [Click to read more] Source: http://www.javacodegeeks.com Article | |
| Test service to combat Android fragmentation Japan’s largest mobile operator is prepping an elaborate testing center, with hundreds of handsets monitored by streaming web cameras, to help software developers debug their apps on the growing morass of Android devices and software versions. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com News | |
| HTC software bug leaks WiFi passwords The last few months have not been kind to HTC on the security and privacy front. First there was a bug in HTC’s Sense skin that allowed for remote file access on a handful of smartphones, then the whole Carrier IQ debacle, which was demonstrated mostly on HTC’s hardware. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com News | |
| The Boutique Tester Revisited Between cloud computing, crowd-sourced testing, and even the recent claim that "test is dead," what's a boutique tester to do? Matthew Heusser offers his thoughts. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.stickyminds.com Article | |
| Apica LoadTest 2 Boasts Simplified Cloud Testing Apica, a leading load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications announced its next-generation Apica LoadTest portal, which is expected to be generally available in March 2012. Apica LoadTest 2, complete with Selenium integration, will allow users to easily pinpoint load capacity limits, eliminate web performance bottlenecks and get a true understanding of how a site will perform. [Click to read more] News | |
| Seapine Announces New Versions of TestTrack and QA Wizard Pro Seapine Software announced the release of Seapine ALM 2012, its quality-centric application lifecycle management suite. Seapine ALM 2012 contains over 100 new features and enhancements that enhance traceability, support thorough application testing, and provide more control over managing projects. [Click to read more] News | |
| Transition to Agile Testing This article discusses the traditional software testing aspects that should be changed before adopting Agile practices. Testing teams face a significant impediment when they have to unlearn the traditional practices. In the key points discussed in this article, you will find: * Testing team needs to be independent and independently empowered in order to be effective. * Separate test strategy and test plan are needed to manage testing. * You cannot apply in an Agile sprint the V-model for verification and validation. * The value of testing is realized only when defects are logged. The author concludes that, even if software testing execution is not very different in Waterfall or Agile, the Agile mind-set and its testing practices provide effective new means to achieve the desired results. The agility lies in the Agile practices, rather than in the overarching process itself. [Click to read more] Article | |
| Google App Engine: Unit Testing This blog post provides a detail process on how to create and run unit tests for Google App Engine applications. The author shows how to write the tests using the standard python unittest module and execute them with gaeunit, a web based test runner. He reminds us that it is easier to write unit tests during design rather than afterwards. We should also keep the tests high level so that further detailed modifications will not break the tests. A short video summarizing Google App Engine unit testing is available at the end. [Click to read more] News | |
| Performance Analysis of REST/HTTP Services with JMeter and Yourkit Running stress- or load-tests of asynchronous REST/HTTP services with JMeter is only the first step in performance improvement. If the applications have problems when load increases, you need to find where the issues are. You can spend a lot of time to examine the code base before – if ever – finding the cause of the performance problem. This blog post provides an introduction on how to record and examine telemetry performance measurements with Yourkit3 after running JMeter tests. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.codeaffine.com Article | |
| Unit Tests Are FIRST Unit tests are useful and effective if you remember to make them FIRST. FIRST is an acronym for Fast, Isolated, Repeatable, Self-Verifying and Timely. Each of this points is discussed in the article with examples. The most important thing about unit tests is that they be useful and effective for your programming team. The FIRST mnemonic is a simple mechanism to guide you there. [Click to read more] Article | |
| Apkudo Announces Android Device Testing Software for Manufacturers and Service Providers Apkudo, Inc., an Android innovation start-up, today announced Apkudo Device Analytics software for testing new Android smartphones and tablets as part of prepping those devices for launch to consumers. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.marketwire.com News | |
| Agile development: Essential skills for the Agile developer Agile development continues to grow in popularity, but teams often have trouble adopting new techniques. In this interview with the four Net Objectives authors of Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design, we’ll explore the skills that are most important and some differences between Agile and Waterfall development. [Click to read more] Article | |
| Software testers on Agile teams shift to exploratory testing and code quality Agile development is a new way of operating that may present some challenges to testers who struggle to identify their role. As developers take on more responsibility for functional testing, where does that leave the tester? How should senior managers organize their development teams? In this second of a two-piece interview with the four Net Objectives authors of Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design, we look more into the role QA and test plays on the Agile development team. [Click to read more] Article | |
| Traq Software Stresses 7 Important Principals for Test Management Yet again, 2011 saw major software failures from major companies. Traq Software see failures in process contributing significantly to failures like these. Most forget these seven key test management concepts which help ensure high quality software releases. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.sfgate.com Article | |
| Software tester moves to offshore cloud Faster, cheaper load testing for finance, government clients. Software testing firm TestPro is considering moving its email and knowledge management systems offshore after taking up IBM’s Singapore-based cloud offering last August.. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.itnews.com.au News | |
| The State of Security? (And free downloads) Learn from the past, and work towards a better future. As testers we always seem keen to learn about security testing, but the reality of becoming an expert in the challenges security faces can be daunting. We’ve managed to source the first three reports on the State of Security from VeraCode, you can download these [Click to read more] Source: http://www.thetestingplanet.com Article | |
| Testing for Kids – Free Download Would you like to see the next generation of testers to start their training young? I would! I teach my boys about testing in a very informal sense. They often comment on computers, games and design – their challenges, problems and bugs! I help them out where possible and often have to explain that programs.. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.thetestingplanet.com Article | |
| Is Test Automation a "Project"? Test automation can turn into a real pain in the neck if a designated team is in charge of it or if the automators work on it as a separate project. In this article, Lisa Crispin seconds Bob Jones’s recent call for whole-team test automation and elaborates on the dangers of relegating test automation to an isolated project rather than integrating it into the overall software development process. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.stickyminds.com/ Article | |
| Extend Rational Functional Tester with FlexMonkium The FlexMonkium tools provide a consistent Flex application GUI object recognition solution with strong support for the constant Flash plug-in updates. With FlexMonkium, Flex recording and playback is seamlessly interleaved with native Selenium recording and playback. This article provides step-by-step instructions to make Rational Functional Tester works in combination with Selenium and FlexMonkium. [Click to read more] News | |
| More Top Tips For Writing Better Selenium Tests AS Customer Support Engineer at SauceLabs, Santiago Suarez Ordoñez has answered more than 3,000 support emails. After a first video Top Tips For Writing Better Selenium Tests, he shares in this more tips to improve your Selenium tests so they run quicker and more efficiently locally and in the cloud. [Click to read more] Article | |
| HP Powers Application Performance Testing in the Cloud HP launched a new offering that allows partners to provide a branded solution for application performance testing in the cloud, helping their customers to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver high-quality applications. [Click to read more] News | |
| Polarion Software Announces ‘Polarion QA’ for Quality Management Polarion Software, a recognized leader in application lifecycle management, announced today it has further expanded its end-to-end support for software development teams with the launch of the company’s latest product for test case management, Polarion QA. [Click to read more] News | |
| Test Automation Anecdotes Software testing practitioners, managers and consultants provides in this article illuminating, educational and funny anecdotes about their experiences with test automation. The key points of each story are put in evidence. You will see that * Technical success is not a guarantee of lasting automation. You need management support through good communication.. [Click to read more] News | |
| TOSCA Testsuite achieves support award TOSCA Testsuite™ by TRICENTIS®, a global leader in the area of software automation and quality assurance, has won the R.E.C.S.S. Support Award 2011 for its excellent service and support. SupportAwards.org is dedicated to acknowledging excellence in customer support and service. Every year, the R.E.C.S.S. (Recognition of Excellence in Customer Support and Service) is given to companies that show commitment to outstanding customer support. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com News | |
| Unit Testing in Java: A Sleeping Snail In the context of Java unit testing, a sleeping snail is a test that’s sluggish and takes (relatively speaking) forever to run because it relies on Thread#sleep and arbitrarily long waits to allow threads to execute before performing assertions or continuing with the workflow under test. In this article, based on chapter 5 of Unit Testing in Java, author Lasse Koskela explains this code smell and the appropriate deodorant with an example [Click to read more] Article | |
| Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 This video describes the six mechanisms in Visual Studio 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing. Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late. [Click to read more] Article | |
| Testing First is Thinking First “As we were saying, up-front testing really isn’t testing at all. It is really up-front design through the analysis of our tests. Can we take this testing even further? When XP came out and suggested doing unit tests, many of us realized that if we combined a series of unit tests together, we could get the equivalent of automated acceptance testing.” [Click to read more] Article | |
| eValid Automated Web Testing Suite eValid, is a testing tool suite built into an IE browser -- a true Test Enabled Web Browser™. eValid performs every function needed for detailed WebSite static and dynamic testing, regression testing, QA/Validation, page timing and tuning, transaction monitoring, and realistic & scalable server loading. eValid runs on Windows 2000/XP. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.qatestingtools.com New Tool | |
| Become an EuroSTAR 2012 Ambassador EuroSTAR is accepting applications from eager, passionate and dedicated EuroSTAR Community members who would like the opportunity to represent EuroSTAR as a EuroSTAR 2012 Ambassador. If EuroSTAR is a must attend event in the testing calendar for you and you feel you have what it takes to represent EuroSTAR in your country and the online testing world, then we want you! [Click to read more] News | |
| Rethinking Software Development, Testing and Inspection Setting the Scene--Where Formal Inspections Were Born: The early 1970s were a bit like the old Monty Python Skit "The Four Yorkshiremen," having a reel-to-reel tape drive was "luxury" and most people still had physical punched cards. Robert C. Martin, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, described this era in his book The Clean Coder [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com Article | |
| Steria becomes first IT Services organisation in India to conduct TMMi eSurveys Steria India partners with Experimentus to become among the first organisations in India to offer Test Maturity Model Integrated (TMMi) e-surveys. Steria India, a leading provider of IT enabled business services, and Experimentus, the software quality management consulting firm, today announced a strategic partnership to service the growing needs of the Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) community in India. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com News | |
| Development Testing and Banking IT: Achieving a New Era in Software Quality Join Dave West, a leading Forrester Analyst, for this informative one-hour session, moderated by Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, to gain real-world insight into applying development testing to deliver innovative software faster. Feb 9, 2012 8AM PDT [Click to read more] Source: http://www.coverity.com Web Seminar | |
| New issue of Professional Tester magazine The new issue of Professional Tester will help you do your job better. All its contributors share practical, applicable knowledge and ideas. It focuses on the testing of code while it is being written: development testing. Download your copy now, free at professionaltester.com. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com News | |
| Automation Anywhere Achieves a Microsoft Gold ISV Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network Automation Anywhere Inc., an industry-leading provider of business process automation software, today announced it has achieved a Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network, demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment.Automation Anywhere helps companies automate complex processes, ERP processes, and critical day-to-day business processes—with no programming required. All ERP packages, like Microsoft Dynamics, are enhanced using Automation Anywhere. Many end-to-end ERP processes, such as entering sales data, purchase order data, or running reports, can be made more flexible, complete, and integrated using Automation Anywhere—making the end user experience significantly better. [Click to read more] Article | |
| Whole-team Test Automation: Making the Move Having someone on your test team with automation knowledge can be helpful. However, spreading that knowledge across the team can improve the individual testers, the project, and the test team as a whole. In this article, Bob Jones explains why his team first tried whole-team test automation and offers some tips for implementing it on your team. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.stickyminds.com/ Article | |
| MobileCloud for QTP - A fully integrated mobile testing solution for Quicktest Professional MobileCloud for QTP is a complete solution for automated functional and regression testing of mobile applications within HP's QuickTest Professional (QTP) product. MobileCloud for QTP seamlessly integrates native QuickTest Professional scripting and flow control with Perfecto Mobile's comprehensive cloud-based automated mobile testing solution. This breakthrough solution enables you to naturally extend your existing HP Functional Testing and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) environment to mobile applications. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.perfectomobile.com New Tool | |
| How We Test Antivirus Software and Security Suites Want to choose the most effective security software for your PC? Learn more about how we evaluate antivirus utilities and security suites. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.pcworld.com Article | |
| Ohio testing disaster response software For years, the coordination process has involved phone calls, faxes, e-mails and reams of paper. The system is now being streamlined with software and internet accessibility. A software package called WebEOC is already in use by the Ohio EMA and now is being tested in Franklin, Union, Ottawa, Lucas and Clark counties. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com News | |
| Patent for software test suite optimization Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, announced that it has been granted a patent by USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for its StORM(Statistics Operations Research Matrix) methodology. Wipro ‘StORM’ is a system and method for software test suite optimization, achieved by generating an Orthogonal Array(OA) for software testing using the mathematical principles for OA. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.testnewsonline.com News | |
| Rise Above the Challenges of Performance Testing in the Clouds Let’s not kid ourselves. Conducting performance testing, and conducting it well, is difficult. And most of us are stuck running performance tests in suboptimal environments, from which results are often difficult to extrapolate in terms of predicting the behavior of a future production environment. Event Date: 01/31/2012 02:00 PM Eastern Standard Time [Click to read more] Source: http://www.stickyminds.com/ Web Seminar | |
| TesTrek Vancouver Call for Presentations The QAI Global Institute is seeking IT industry experts and corporate practitioners who are interested in contributing to the software quality and testing profession through the TesTrek Symposiums. We are now accepting proposals for presentations and workshops for TesTrek Vancouver 2012 [Click to read more] Source: http://www.qaitestrek.org News | |
| Agile Before there was Agile: Egoless Programming and Step-by-Step Two key ideas underlying modern Agile development practices. First, that work can be done more effectively by Whole Teams in which people work together collaboratively to design and build systems. They share code, the review each other’s work, they share ideas and problems and solutions, they share responsibility, they work closely with each other and communicate constantly with each other and the customer. The second is that working software is designed, built and delivered incrementally in short time boxes. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.javacodegeeks.com Article | |
| Effective Unit Testing - Not All Code is Created Equal Unit Testing is one of the most adopted methodologies for high quality code. Its contribution to a more stable, independent and documented code is well proven . Unit test code is considered and handled as an a integral part of your repository, and as such requires development and maintenance. However, developers often encounter a situation where the resources invested in unit tests where not as fruitful as one would expect. This leads us to wonder, as in any investment, where and how should resources be invested in unit tests? [Click to read more] Source: www.javacodegeeks.com Article | |
| 7 mistakes of software testing Though most developers know the importance of testing, it seems that a lot of them still aren’t testing enough. And if they write tests, they test just test wrong.. [Click to read more] Source: www.javacodegeeks.com Article | |
| Continuous Performance Monitoring Performance testing is an important and integral part of most testing projects. This type of testing corresponds to Q4 of the Agile testing quadrant. You can find interesting insights on the agile testing quadrants in this post by Lisa Crispin. [Click to read more] Source: www.TestingGeek.com Article | |
| The Future Of Software Testing Part One – Testing In Production Hey, want to know the future? OK, here it is: Testing in Production with real users in real data centers will be a necessity for any high performing large scale software service. Testers will leverage the Cloud to achieve unprecedented effectiveness and productivity. Software development organizations will dramatically change the way they test software and [...] [Click to read more] Source: www.theTestingPlanet.com Article | |
| What is Testpad? - An Interview with Stefan Butlin Testpad is an online tool to plan and execute manual testing, whether that’s making ad-hoc testing less ad-hoc, steering exploratory testing or maintaining detailed lists of test cases. It moves away from managing test cases one at a time, and instead towards a more flexible checklist approach that makes it much faster to create and maintain scripts. [Click to read more] Source: http://www.TheTestingPlanet.com New Tool | |
| Testers: Put on Your End-user Hat The more you know about the end-user, the more effective you will be as a tester. Here are some tips for adding value by thinking like your customer. [Click to read more] Source: www.StickyMinds.com Article | |
| HP Expands Enterprise Security for Cloud, Mobile Hewlett-Packard combined its security products and technology from recent acquisitions to unveil an expanded Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio designed to help businesses deal with persistent security threats from cloud applications and social media. This new offering reflects the company's desire to move more into the security and services markets. [Click to read more] Source: www.onestoptesting.com News | |
| TestRail 2.4 Test Management Software Released Gurock Software announced the release of TestRail 2.4, a new version of their web-based test management software. TestRail helps software development teams and QA departments to efficiently manage, track and organize their software testing efforts.TestRail 2.4 comes with support for UI Scripts (a powerful way to customize the user interface), time zones, full Mantis integration and many other improvements. [Click to read more] Source: www.onestoptesting.com New Tool | |
| Using automation to overcome Agile testing challenges Organizations globally are adopting the Agile development methodology for enhanced collaboration and faster delivery. Agile is a set of software development principles that lays emphasis on individuals over processes and tools, working software over [Click to read more] Source: www.onestoptesting.com Article | |
| Software Quality – Finding Defects Early – Requirements Defects One definition of software quality is the absence of defects. Of course, how do you know if all the defects have been found? If you can't find any, does that mean the software is 'good' quality? When we talk to our clients about software [Click to read more] Source: www.onestoptesting.com Article | |
| Seven Ways to Make Testing Irrelevant on Your Team Testers and developers can be friends. In fact, on teams working at a breakneck pace to deliver software, they must be friendly enough to rely on each other. However, there are a few sure-fire ways to ruin that relationship before it begins—and potentially make testing both irrelevant and unwelcome. Marlena Compton lists seven such ways here, along with suggestions for avoiding disaster. [Click to read more] Source: www.StickyMinds.com Article | |
| Be Prepared for SOA Testing Service-oriented architecture offers software testers an opportunity to engage stakeholders early and often. Before you dive in, prepare your testing practices to handle the potential challenges of SOA. [Click to read more] Source: www.StickyMinds.com Article | |
| TestLodge TestLodge is a relatively new hosted tool that is designed to be a lot simpler than traditional software by only providing the essentials to get the job done well. The system focuses on helping you create your test plans, input your requirements, create and manage your test suites and cases along with allowing you to easily perform multiple test runs and generate reports. [Click to read more] Source: TestingGeek New Tool | |
| WAPT WAPT is a load, stress and performance testing tool for websites and web-based applications. In contrast to "800-pound gorilla" load testing tools, WAPT is designed to minimize the learning curve and give the user an ability to create a heavy load from a single regular workstation. You can create a basic test scenario and get meaningful information about your performance landscape in a matter of minutes. WAPT is able to generate up to 3000 simultaneously acting virtual users for an "average" test scenario using standard hardware configuration (Pentium 4 2GHz, 1GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet). WAPT creates a test workload which is virtually the same as the load experienced by a web site in the real world. Virtual users in each profile are fully customizable. They can have individual IP address (IP spoofing), user name and password, and persistent cookies, to name a few. Basic and Integrated Windows (NTLM) authentication methods are supported. Graphs and reports are shown in real-time at different levels of detail, thus helping to manage the testing process. You don’t need to wait for the completion of the test to get results, so if you have already identified a problem, you can stop the test, fix the problem and start the test again to check for performance changes. The command line interface allows you to integrate WAPT into the existing development environment. Standard XML files are used to store test scenarios and can be modified by third party software. [Click to read more] Source: TestingGeek New Tool | |
| BugCam BugCam is the easiest way to add video to your bug reports! It integrates directly with your favorite bug tracking tools, including Fogbugz, JIRA, Trac, Mantis, Bugzilla, and others. [Click to read more] Source: TestingGeek New Tool | |
| BrowserSeal BrowserSeal is a fast and easy to use cross browser testing and screenshot tool. It allows you to capture an image of your web site under multiple browsers with a single click of a mouse and instantly inspect the differences. It supports Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7 and IE8), Firefox (3.0, 3.5 and 4.0), Google Chrome, Opera (8, 9, 10 and 11) and Safari (3, 4, 5 and 6). Starting from version 2.0 BrowserSeal supports mobile browser testing with Opera Mini 6. It is heavily optimized for speed, which is especially evident on large web pages with scrollbars. [Click to read more] Source: TestingGeek New Tool | |
| Selunit Selunit is an open-source project to simply combine comprehensively Selenium tests with Continuous Integration. It provides a flexible Maven plugin for executing Selenese HTML test suites (default Selenium IDE format) in batch and outputs test results in JUnit format. This allows running, controlling and analyzing Selenium tests and reports within all modern CI servers and build environments without additional tools. It was never easier to incorporate Selenium tests from Selenium IDE directly into your Continuous Integration process. [Click to read more] Source: TestingGeek New Tool | |
| PractiTest Practitest is a SaaS-based platform for managing the entire QA & testing life-cycle, including requirements, tests, issues and reports. PractiTest provides a unified platform across distributed projects and teams; an advanced reporting mechanism enables managers to view the QA efforts of multiple teams, projects and platforms, resulting in streamlined, coordinated and more effective QA. As a SaaS-based product, PractiTest combines easy deployment with low cost of ownership. Our flexible licensing enables QA teams of every size to deploy our cutting-edge tool. [Click to read more] Source: TestingGeek New Tool |
